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Steven K. BenderPartner

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Steve Bender's practice includes all aspects of complex commercial real estate transactions, including acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and disposition of heavy industrial, commercial, and office properties. For the last twenty years, Steve Bender has focused his practice on the acquisition, development, financing and operation of energy projects, including electric power plant projects throughout the United States. As part of that work, a significant segment of his practice includes the acquisition and development of electric transmission, natural gas and water line right-of-ways for supplying and interconnecting projects. He has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer in Atlanta magazine six times.

Experience

Commercial and Office Transactions:

Acquisition and financing of 22 Story Assisted Living Facility located in Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia

Lease of 225,000 square feet of office space for Home Depot U.S.A., Inc

Acquisition and financing of Southern Company Center Office Tower in downtown Atlanta, Georgia

Sale of 34-acre headquarters campus by Atlanta Gas Light Company, a public utility

Acquisition and leasing of Five Points Office Tower in downtown Atlanta, Georgia

Represented United Parcel Service in connection with the real estate aspects of the relocation of their world headquarters from Greenwich, Connecticut, to Atlanta, Georgia

Solar Projects:

Imperial Solar Energy Center South: 946-acre photovoltaic solar project under construction in Imperial County, California, including the development of a Generation Tie-Line Path Change Option for the project

Fresh & Easy Roof Top Solar: Representation of Tesco PLC’s U.S. affiliate, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets, LLC, in connection with the acquisition and development of their 850,000 square foot Riverside, California distribution facility, with 500,000 square feet of roof top solar generation

Currently working on additional utility scale photovoltaic solar projects that have not yet been publicly announced

Clean Coal Projects:

Taylorville Energy Center: 716-megawatt (gross), 602-MW (net) coal-fed power plant using an advanced technology called Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle (IGCC) with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), making it among the cleanest power plants in the world, including the acquisition and development of pore space needed for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (a/k/a carbon sequestration)

Trailblazer Energy Center: Acquisition of 2,000 acres of land for 765 megawatts (MW) gross and 600 MW net Clean Coal project using best available supercritical steam, pulverized coal technology, including the capture 85 to 90 percent of the carbon dioxide produced by combustion

Cogeneration Project:

Mid-Georgia Cogen: 300 MW dual-fuel, combined cycle cogeneration project located in Kathleen, Georgia. The first independent power plant built in the State of Georgia.

Gas-Fired Power Project Development:

Development and financing of 1,220 megawatt Combined-Cycle Electric Generating Station in Kiowa, OK, including extension of ERCOT Transmission Line from Savoy, Texas to Kiowa, Oklahoma

Acquisition, development and financing of 885 megawatt Combined-Cycle Facility in Scottsville, Virginia and related 14-mile water supply pipeline

Acquisition, development and financing of 845 megawatt Combined-Cycle Facility in Billingsley, Alabama and related 21-mile water supply pipeline

Acquisition, development and financing of a second 885 megawatt Combined-Cycle Facility in Billingsley, Alabama

Acquisition, development and financing of 900 megawatt peaking facility in west Georgia

Acquisition and Sale of Operating Power Plants:

Acquisition of six (6) operating gas-fired power plants located in five (5) states

Acquisition of three (3) operating gas-fired power plants located in three (3) states

Acquisition of 315 megawatt simple-cycle power plant located on the Delmarva Peninsula

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